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TIL the Beastie Boys are credited with coining the term 'mullet'

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v4DL TIL turkeys got their name because the British thought they came from Turkey. Meanwhile, in Turkey, turkeys are called hindis because they thought turkeys came from India. In reality, they came from North America.
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grjML TIL that phosphorus was the first new element to be discovered since ancient times. In 1669, a German alchemist tried boiling and condensing urine in order to make the fabled philosopher’s stone. Instead, he discovered a substance that glowed in the dark and named it “phosphorus mirabilis.”